{"id":37642,"date":"2018-11-12T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/seven-horses-die-in-kent-barn-fire\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:05:09","slug":"seven-horses-die-in-kent-barn-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/seven-horses-die-in-kent-barn-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven horses die in Kent barn fire | Update: cause undetermined because of heavy damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven horses died in a Kent barn fire early Monday morning near the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/zAWasXDaxxM2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">12900 block of Southeast 203rd <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/zAWasXDaxxM2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">Place<\/a>, just east of Kentridge High School.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was reported at 7:39 a.m., and firefighters could see a smoke column from a half-mile away, according to a Puget Sound Fire news release. When they got on scene, the firefighters from the Puget Sound and Renton regional fire authorities found the 40-x-40 barn to be fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the danger of collapse, firefighters worked &ldquo;defensively,&rdquo; meaning from the outside and not going into the heavily damaged structure. They also worked to protect another barn, which was approximately 50 feet away.<\/p>\n<p>The property owner informed firefighters that the seven horses boarded in the barn were unable to get out.<\/p>\n<p>A Puget Sound Fire investigator ruled that the cause of the fire will be undetermined because of too much damage to the structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning blaze east of Kentridge High School <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":37643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}